Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: A new breed of memory device could keep the decades-long speedup in computer power going for decades longer, researchers say.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: A new breed of memory device could keep the decades-long speedup in computer power going for decades longer, researchers say.
Gilligan might have gotten off that island a lot sooner if shape-shifting robot planes had been around.
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